Remote work life has even ruined social media for me. Teams has turned my day into one prolonged session of the old gay dot com chat rooms minus dirty talk, gay wit and nudes. I check email until 11pm 7 days a week because I& #39;m the point person for our main Ask Us email link.
To accommodate a lot of the staff with kids, we have late afternoon meetings when I& #39;d normally be at the gym (or now, out on a long walk or doing a PopSugar class on YouTube) or have a drink in my hand!

I barely check Twitter or Instagram anymore. As a product of Warhol and
and Wojnarowicz and Mapplethorpe and Calvin Klein ads and Madonna, I love thirst traps more than most, but even that has moved into a strange realm of farce and parable.

Meanwhile, Facebook has become too many conspiracy theories posted by friends I feel should know better.
I wonder if this new normal of the virtual will continue when actual life and interaction resumes. Will people turn to robot lovers and other simulacra if that resumption fails them somehow? Will others abandon the digital all together? Will some become androids?

I feel I& #39;m
old enough I& #39;ll mostly stay the same, with less screen time and more walks/less gym. (Honestly, I& #39;m enjoying working out at home again vs the daily grind of a gym experience.) But my mind is changing...I can feel it in my reactions and accepting certain things I& #39;d likely reject
before this. I dunno. This rant started about social media but I guess it& #39;s really just thinking aloud about how and who we will be after upending a lot of things that probably weren& #39;t that good for us, even if we did so with things that feel actively worse for us.

Anyway....
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